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Michelangeli’s recital disc is also heavy on mazurkas, offering ten of them along with a single prelude, the G minor Ballade, and the B flat minor Scherzo. The playing is striking, marked by extraordinary refinement of tone and articulation. In the scherzo, Michelangeli achieves a transcendent realization, full of anticipation, beautiful and intense at same time – one of the great accounts of the piece on record. Originally released in 1972, the recording has fairly low impact sonics, but a nice pickup with plenty of hall ambience. – Ted Libbey, author of
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection.Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. DG 413 449-2 [Chopin recital] Reissued on DG 4777563

Michelangeli’s recital disc is also heavy on mazurkas, offering ten of them along with a single prelude, the G minor Ballade, and the B flat minor Scherzo. The playing is striking, marked by extraordinary refinement of tone and articulation. In the scherzo, Michelangeli achieves a transcendent realization, full of anticipation, beautiful and intense at same time – one of the great accounts of the piece on record. Originally released in 1972, the recording has fairly low impact sonics, but a nice pickup with plenty of hall ambience. – Ted Libbey, author of
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